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Cheers: I can go along with that. We don't have as much 'trash' here as you over in Oz and the States: just the night walking earth movers and larger herbivores LOL. I guess it must be a nightmare with so many species on the forbidden/dog killing list!
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I know: and my best bitch is due to pop in a week's time. I really didn't want a litter this year, or even next year, but she's 7 years old and time is running out! Seriously though, I don't know the lad well who bred these pups, but he's a serious hunter and wouldn't breed just for the sake of it. If I wasn't expecting a litter I'd definitely be after one.
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Interesting cross: they should have good noses: you'll keep us posted on his progress won't you.
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Feckin gorgeous pups my God am I ever tempted!
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Well, if we're including people in most prized possessions, then, apart from my dogs I'd have to say my OH and of course my friends: a good friend is something to be prized and nurtured in these days of lack of trust etc.
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Will give them a try tomorrow thanks.But they are so tiny tracey they will eat WHOLE rabbit at that age no need to mince it and it will be far easyer for them to eat and digest than dry food watered down or not ........... Just put a whole gutted rabbit in with them: ours start sucking the meat even before their eyes are properly open. If they have teeth they can eat it! And its the most natural food: no danger of feeding them too much or too little either: they'll eat as much as they want, sleep it off then start all over again!
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You need to put them in as big an area as possible: 5 foot by 5 foot wouldn't be too big. Cover the floor with newspaper several sheets thick. Make a bed area in one corner big enough to contain all the puppies comfortably, just with a plank on one side, and a low lip, like a batten on the other side, just high enough to stop their bedding coming out. VetBed is the best: liquid is absorbed straight away and goes through leaving the surface dry. Puppies instinctively try and move a little way from where they sleep to pee and shit: first shitting away from the bed, peeing further away t
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If a dog marks a hole and you don't do anything about the mark, either no ferrets or terriers depending on what it is marking, then eventually the dog will stop marking because there is no reward for it marking. This is why I like to take pups out early, at a few months old, with a ferret, because then you can honour the mark and produce the rabbit. Then you praise the dog for marking, though the appearance of the rabbit will be praise and reward enough! If one of my lurchers marks a bramble and the terrier has missed the mark or scent, I'll call the terrier back to go into the bramble wh
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Totally brilliant! :clapping: quote: ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse? WITNESS: No. ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure? WITNESS: No. ATTORNEY: Did you check for breathing? WITNESS: No. ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy? WITNESS: No. ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor? WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar. ATTORNEY: I see, but could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless? WITNESS: Yes, it is possible t
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Really good looking dogs: one thing I've noticed about most of the stags in Oz is their good feet: solid and tight. And I really like the JR/Grey cross: I'm surprised people over here haven't gone down that road for breeding a small lurcher. Do they open up/bark when running game or are they silent? I suppose being terrier based they might, which would put people off over here: though wouldn't be a problem running foxes obviously.
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Thanks for the explanation: I do remember seeing that before: sorry, forgot! But that still doesn't explain why he shoots them for doing it........why not just train them not to go down holes? Not trying to be awkward or anything, just curious as to the reasoning behind it.
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This is totally fascinating! Maybe there were 2 odd genes which just happened to be carried recessively by both parents. Put them together and they throw a small hairy pup: similar things have happened often enough with humans: look at normal sized parents producing children with dwarfism: often a lot hairier than normal people too. Just a thought!
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Having just had my first litter docked at the vet since the ban, I can only tell you what my vet has told me: they dock, you sign the certificate which the vet KEEPS until you take the pups back at 6-7 weeks for chipping. Only then will the vet release the certificate to you, which you give to the buyer when they take the pup. More of a scam and money for the vets IMO, as I could normally get mine chipped for free: but not with these. I suppose if you weren't worried about having legal proof of legal docking and had no intention of getting them chipped you could do that, but in that case yo
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Your'e way too far from me, but I'd suggest getting in touch with Jim Greenwood: very good dog man indeed. http://jimgreenwood.co.uk/default.aspx
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Did he come from decent working parents? But even if he did: my adult dogs are really strange with feathered things that peck back: only got one which will take crows: the others, including good furred vermin dogs just back off once they realise what it is. Yet they'll take pheasant and partridge all day long. Maybe they just don't see them as quarry either. I've also had dogs who were still silly puppies at the same age as yours, so there's still hope. LOL
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................and if he turns out brilliant then it will have been worth all the hard work! Some of my best ones have been a pain in the arse until they really started working: almost as if all the irritating ways they had before that time were because they didn't know what they were born for. Whingers, destroyers of everything they could lay their mouths on, wind up merchants (no shit eaters though!): when it all comes together doesn't that make it all worth while.
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Things like prey drive, determination, physical soundness, good feet, durability, strike, stamina, temperament are all inherited from the parents and ancestors. I've had 2 Hancock dogs in the past. One was loopy, really nervy strange temperament, though adequate in the field. Hancock later admitted that the Greyhound dam to this bitch was very nervy. The other was one of the best lurchers I've owned, with ticks against all the above boxes in the first sentence. The nature/nurture debate is never ending, but when you see generations of good working lurchers reproducing those same t
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Good on you for taking her in. Some people don't deserve to even own a stick insect, let alone anything else.
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I've seen the sire run and he's a decent dog: these pups will definitely be well reared and done right> he's a sound lad and his dogs are spot on.
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Youa re obviously doing a fantastic job with them to have kept them all. Just to add my two pence worth: Personally I wouldn't go anywhere near cereal of any sort, except maybe the rice pudding if you really feel you must. I've not had the job of hand rearing completely like you, but I did have a bitch become ill with a virus once and dry up when the pups were 2 12 weeks old. I was giving them scraped raw chicken, just tiny pieces the size of my finger nail at that age: no problems with shits or upset stomachs at all, and by 3 weeks they were eating scraped lamb and chicken mush (warmed
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WHY? Wouldn't it be better to train the dog not to go down holes?
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If the bitch is just lying quite contendly between births then there is usually not a problem. Having said that she could have uterine intertia, which is when the uterus just stops contracting even when there are still pups waiting to be born. Uterine inertia can be down to an enormous litter and the uterus is just so stretched its lost its ability to contract: bit like an overstretched balloon that stays big even when there's no air in it. Or inertia can be hereditary, or the bitch is too old or not in good condition, like too fat and unfit. A vet may give a jab of oxytocin to get things s
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I so wish someone would buy this pup! If I have to look at him any longer I'm going to get itchy fingers and want to start pming you. Me too, I can't believe he's not gone by now: -
22 1/2 inches: lurcher to lurcher bred: ubelievable speed with stamina too. Did larger quarry with ease before the ban as well as being devestating on rabbits.
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Just jumping into this thread and off the top of my head I'd say that I've seen some superb coursing dogs/bitches in the field that were home bred, maybe with some big names back in their pedigree, but given or sold very cheap to friends of the breeders: just because these particular dogs never won big matches because they were never matched doesn't mean they were no good. I bet there's a lot of good dogs out there who could hold their own against any of the big 'names' who changed hands for a huge amount of money. Not everyone is desperate to boost their own egos or make a lot of dosh by c